The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 2
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 15] NEW DELHI WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980 CHAITRA 6, 1902
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LOK SABHA
The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 26th March,
1980: —
BILL NO. 74 OF 1980
A Bill farther to amend the Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-first Year of the Republic
of India as follows: —
1. This Act may be called the Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Short title.
(Amendment) Act, 1980.
22 of 1948.
2. in section 6 of the Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946, after sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: —
Amend- ment of section 6.
324 THE. GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—SEC. 2]STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1SM6 constitutes a fund for the financing of activities to promote the welfare of labour employed in the mica mining industry. Section 6 of the Act empowers the Central Government to make rules to carry into effect the purposes of the Act. The Act does not require the rules made by the Central Government to be laid before Parliament.
2. The Committee on Subordinate Legislation (Fifth Lok Sabha) in their Fourteenth Report desired that the Government should undertake a review of all Acts to find out which of them do not contain a provision for laying of rules foamed thereunder before Parliament and should In- corporate such provision in those Acts. The Committee on Subordinate Legislation (Sixth Lok Sabha) in their Nineteenth Report further desired that the necessary amending legislation be brought up at an early date. It is proposed to accept these recommendations of the Committees on Subordinate Legislation and make a suitable amendment in the Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946.
The Bill seeks to achieve this object.
J. B. PATNAIK.
NEW DELHI;
The 15th March, 1980.
AVTAR SINGH RIKHY,